“President Buhari did not pretend that because it happened 25 years ago and others that came before him did not do anything so he should not do anything and say that is not his problem.” Nigeria June12 Abiola Buhari HafsatAbiolaCostello
The celebration of June 12 as a national holiday began at a time of great social unease in Nigeria. Like the painting on a canvass, the mural throws up different perspectives and holds out varied meanings to the people.
Whenever elections are rigged, does it true testimony that the lessons of June 12 had been well digested? What about the translation of elections into mini-war fares? Each passing moment, it is sounds as if the conversations over June 12 have not touched on the core of the eternal lessons surrounding the supreme sacrifice paid by Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola to liberate Nigerians from the clutches of bad leadership and poverty.
“I think,” Hafsat explained, “for this circumstance, the one that best describes the circumstances, is that you cannot shave a man’s head in his absence.” “If the people will not be present to have themselves disgraced in that way and the people were not, because they resisted the annulment the best way that they could. I think when things are difficult; it does not mean we should cave in,”The activist recalled that when things are difficult, we say we cannot kill ourselves, even as she admonished Nigerians to always stand their ground.
The question that remains hanging in the balance is whether, without going the whole hog of announcing the result and declaring Abiola winner, the ghost of June 12 has been appeased? “And because President Obasanjo did not say anything, President Yar’Adua was there for too little time to say anything and President Goodluck Jonathan did not say anything, so already, the action taken is a very significant step.
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